Great news, I won the FSD Summer Photo Contest! It's actually quite funny, because this picture was just a quick snapshot I took whilst at the Maasai market in Nairobi, never did I think that it could actually win anything. My prize is $100 USD donated to my organisation, Iguhu County Hospital
Speaking of my hospital, I thought I'd share a little bit more about Iguhu County Hospital, because my mum thinks I'm in the middle of nowhere but my facility is actually quite big. It was started in 1952 as a government clinic, and has grown to now be a level 4 Hospital for the Ikolomani (Kakamega South) Sub-County. It has facilities for out-patients, clinical care centre (for HIV), laboratory, pharmacy, antenatal, maternal and child health care, and three in-patient wards - Paediatrics, Women's and Maternity. Currently two more wards are being built - a Men's ward and another Women's ward, as well as X-ray and ultrasound facilities. It is also the headquarters for the Ikolomani Sub-County Officers, which is where I sit with the head of laboratory and public health.
During the last fortnight I was participating in the Kenya Polio Vaccination Campaign. Seriously wow, this initiative was incredible, just on a human resources point of view - in our sub-county alone their were 80 teams of two people (a healthcare worker and a community volunteer), plus ten team supervisors, plus the sub-county supervision team. I went around with the Medical Superintendent checking that the teams were performing efficiently and effectively. Here's some pics of our wanderings...
I've booked my flights to Addis Ababa, am very excited, mostly about the change in food - I've booked myself onto a food tour around the city with coffee and cake and injera and masir wat and ohmygoodness I need to stop thinking about it because I'm making myself hungry. Honestly I'm struggling with food and my gastrointestinal system... I've been sick on and off since I've been here, but it could be worse, at least it's not malaria or something.
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| The winning picture |
Speaking of my hospital, I thought I'd share a little bit more about Iguhu County Hospital, because my mum thinks I'm in the middle of nowhere but my facility is actually quite big. It was started in 1952 as a government clinic, and has grown to now be a level 4 Hospital for the Ikolomani (Kakamega South) Sub-County. It has facilities for out-patients, clinical care centre (for HIV), laboratory, pharmacy, antenatal, maternal and child health care, and three in-patient wards - Paediatrics, Women's and Maternity. Currently two more wards are being built - a Men's ward and another Women's ward, as well as X-ray and ultrasound facilities. It is also the headquarters for the Ikolomani Sub-County Officers, which is where I sit with the head of laboratory and public health.
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| You are always greeted with a smile at Iguhu County Hospital |
During the last fortnight I was participating in the Kenya Polio Vaccination Campaign. Seriously wow, this initiative was incredible, just on a human resources point of view - in our sub-county alone their were 80 teams of two people (a healthcare worker and a community volunteer), plus ten team supervisors, plus the sub-county supervision team. I went around with the Medical Superintendent checking that the teams were performing efficiently and effectively. Here's some pics of our wanderings...
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| Med Sup and a Polio team looking at a hand-drawn village map - Google maps doesn't work out here |
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| A boy showing me his left little finger which was coloured in, indicating he had been vaccinated |
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| Med Sup and a large bunch of local kids showing me their little fingers |
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| One of the kids being vaccinated - in Kenya we use the oral polio vaccine |
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